Results (2015)

Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.

Director:

Andrew Bujalski

Writer:

Andrew Bujalski

Stars:

Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan

5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Guy Pearce	...	Trevor
Cobie Smulders	...	Kat
Kevin Corrigan	...	Danny
Giovanni Ribisi	...	Paul
Elizabeth Berridge	...	Christine
Brooklyn Decker	...	Erin
Tishuan Scott	...	Lorenzo
Rebecca Beegle	...	Susan
Constance Zimmer	...	Mandy
Matt Sledge	...	Charles
Zoe Graham	...	Talley
David Bernon	...	Ivan
Leslie Roberts	...	Monica - Bootcamper
Amy Lowrey	...	Laura
Tucker Bernon	...	Barrett

Storyline

The healthy living philosophies of an ultra-positive gym owner, Trevor, played by Guy Pearce, is tested against his employee Kat's more pragmatic approach, played by Cobie Smulders. It doesn't help that the two have slept together and he harbours lingering feelings for her. Her unresolved anger threatens to ruin the gym's relationship with a wealthy new client, Danny, played by Kevin Corrigan. Matters are further jeopardized when Trevor, trying to smooth the situation, gives way to his own emotions instead. In spite of their best efforts, neither is able to truly move on. The business risk Trevor is in too deep to back away from and the uncertainty of something more with Kat threatens to profoundly impact both their lives.

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Plot Keywords:

gym | personal trainer | telephone call | dog | split screen | 

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Taglines:

Fighting fit

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some sexual content and drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Japanese

Release Date:

29 May 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amor en forma

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$17,782 (USA) (29 May 2015)

Gross:

$103,887 (USA) (26 June 2015)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Burn Later Productions, Houston King Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Cobie Smulders (Kat) was 5 months pregnant during filming.

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Quotes

Kat: Trevor you have no idea what's going on in your own brain

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Crazy Credits

The whole credits run over the very last scene as an overlay.

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Connections

Featured in Conan: Cobie Smulders/Jay Larson/Jenny Zigrino (2015)

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Soundtracks

Starlight
Written by Eugene Cho, Dan Balis & Darius Maghen
Performed by Escort
Published by Sweet Sensation

User Reviews

Mumblecore goes mainstream and fails miserably

There are a few directors and writers who can get away with engaging character portraits containing little or no plot elements. Robert Altman and Noah Baumbach come to mind but they are also masters at integrating all elements of a film, so even if the narrative seems unfocused, you still get a sense of cohesion and purpose.

Andrew Bujalski is not in their league and that's a shame. When I looked up his list of credits on IMDb I noticed his debut film from 2002, Funny Ha Ha, which was at the heart of the burgeoning Mumblecore movement, and which I liked a lot. Mumblecore was a school of filmmaking that took a hard left from organically structured films like Richard Linklater's Slacker, and then pushed the freeform structure ever further, relying a lot on improvisation, real-time character development, and actor camaraderie.

Results has all the ingredients of a mainstream Mumblecore movie that should work (great actors, fun premise), yet it doesn't, simply because Bujalski appears to be either totally checked out of the project or perhaps he shot and wrote the movie as cooked as Kevin Corrigan's character appears to be for most of the film.

I'll try to summarize the plot but it's difficult because this film has little in cohesion or logic --- characters make random choices that should be funny, quirky, or odd but only come across as tedious and contrived. Anthony Michael Hall's (in yet another odd, spaced-out walk-on performance, similar to his role in Foxcatcher) character is just such an example. Apparently Hall's physique fit the movie but his character could have been ANYONE... he is yet another sounding board for Guy Pierce and Cobie Smulders on-again/off-again romantic ping pong match that's as boring and pointless as everything else in this train wreck of a movie.

According to most services that try to summarize this movie, it's thrust is Pierce and Smulders, as fitness Nazis so strident in their cult-like beliefs at times that they are almost parodies of themselves, are hired to get Corrigan's rich, depressed butt in shape. Results really doesn't do anything of the sort.

I still can't understand why this movie has received consistently high ratings from critics. The film isn't even shot or cut well. Just when the film appears to be going somewhere it swerves violently into nowheres-ville. This isn't daring maverick work, it's just sloppy and incompetent and an insult to most of the actors in it's fine cast --- not to mention a somewhat dirty trick as it passes itself off as a mainstream film that has virtually nothing to offer a mainstream audience. At least with Funny Ha Ha, indie audiences knew they were getting anything but.